Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Paul Mazursky

Writers: Leon Capetanos, Paul Mazursky, René Fauchois

Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine

Composer: Andy Summers

Cast: Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard, Tracy Nelson, Elizabeth Peña, Evan Richards

After his loyal companion, Kerouac, leaves him for a better source of doggy snacks, Jerry, a Beverly Hills down-and-out, decides to take his own life in the swimming pool of a random millionaire, who proceeds to save him and take him in – unsurprisingly, chaos ensues, in Mazursky’s sporadically entertaining though rather over long adaptation of René Fauchois’s play, which lacks the satirical bite of Jean Renoir’s version. Iain.Stott